He is in his bedroom, chatting to himself, an entire packet of sliced cheese spread across the carpet, most of it crushed into the grey fibres. I read this book in less than 24 hours… So gripping, it had me hooked and unable to put it down until I finished the last shocking page! In fact, Gabby is a social media influencer and most of her time is spent keeping up her posts on social media.

I have previously read 'The Girl Who Never Came Home', 'The Stepchild', 'The Mother's Fault' or 'The Family Across The Street' which I also recommend anyone read. Meanwhile, Gabby‘s problems relate to her feeling like her life isn’t going in the direction that she wants. Jack should have been at pre-school today but he had a slight temperature this morning, so she couldn’t send him. As she looks into the garden, where he was playing just moments ago, her heart feels like it has been ripped from her chest.

As the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she's on the road to recovery after being released from the hospital. She meets the neighbor across the street, Gabby, who is eager to become friends and spend some time with Andrea’s son. Every time I said one more chapter it ended on a cliffhanger and I just had to know what was going on! It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica.

He has a level of patience with Jack that Andrea sometimes lacks and can happily spend hours playing with him, both of them loving the toy cars and the large plastic garage filled with ramps her parents sent Jack for his birthday. The heavy grey sky offers little enough light as it is, so, despite the time of day, she switches the lights on and discovers that two light bulbs in the room need to be replaced. A close reader will be able to see what she’s really saying, but she doesn’t want to be too obvious.She is standing at her front door, her keys in her hand, when the car screeches into the street, squealing to a stop in front of her house, filling the air with noise and the smell of burnt rubber.